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Interpretation of “So close” by Pavlos Pavlides
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Protesilaos Stavrou: Interpretations and critiques
So close From the silence to the shout, minimal distance A fracture and suddenly the ceiling turns into smithereens The old sky now falls in pieces before you They say you have temperature, they try to find your pulse You're already away... so close, so close From the earth to the sky in a second In the aeon of an instance you can finally see around you All that seemed distant, and the impossible as possible A boundless ocean now boils frothing inside of you It washes you away... so close, so close All that time cannot do, they say is brought by an instant and that the world is what it is It is your matter if you dive in the depths and look from afar At any rate neither do I know how I got here In front of this abyss...